1892
Nov. 1
(No 2)
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord.  I then went to where the first bird
dropped and flushed it from under a young
pine, killing it by a very quick difficult shot
as it flashed through a small opening between the
trees.
  Following up the second bird the dog stashed it
among alders some distance ahead of me. It came
directly towards me flying slowly & weakly and
I killed it easily enough.
  These two Partridges were both males, one a gray 
old "drummer" with big ruffs, the other a young
bird very dark & richly colored and, as it seems
to me without companion with other specimens,
a fairly typical togata.
[margin]Ruffed Grouse. Two males in company[/margin]
  In the afternoon I drove down to Caliphs and went
into Goose Pond walking entirely around it as
well as through some of the adjoining woods seeing
nothing but a very shy Partridge, a Jay or two,
and a little flock of Chickadees accompanied by
a Brown Creeper. The pond was enveloped in a
thin blue-gray mist which made the opposite
[showers?] look a mile distant. These woods seemed
silent & deserted.